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that I catch from Howlin’ Wolf records. He was asking you to do your chicken mambo
with your guitar playing like the sound of a chicken. It’s like, wow, Chicken Mambo!
It was something that was catchy, but most of the club owners in the beginning,

called me and ask me how many female dancers do you have in the band because
they thought that we were a Latin music band.

BiTS: Oh, I see. Yes.

FP: [Chuckles] So, how many dancers do you have in the band? Well, we don’t have
any dancers, but if you want, we will try to move in a nice way.

BiTS: You've made a number of records with Chicken Mambo, including I think,

quite delightfully, one called ‘Song For Angelina’, who is your lady at home. Did you
learn a lot about making records? Were you involved in the production of any of
those records?

FP: Well, in the beginning, we all in the band, we were not satisfied with our records
because our music doesn't sound at all like the ones we used to listen to on the
records, and we don't know why. We changed studio and studio, and we brought

with us tons of LPs to show to the engineer, and until I went to Texas and I recorded
an album there, and then I understand that it was 50% us and 50% the engineer.

BiTS: Yeah.

FP: I remember the sound engineer
in Texas said to me, your record has
nothing wrong Fabrizio, the only

difficulty is the sound engineer is a
sound engineer for pop music, and
you want to play blues and roots

music and folk music. And there, step
by step, I started to understand how

to produce my records. Nowadays,
I'm quite satisfied with my records.

BiTS: Tell me how “Juba Dance” came

along. That's the first time that I came
across you, of course, was when “Juba
Dance” came out, the album that you made with Guy Davis, which incidentally, I still
play on my radio show. I think it's great. How did that come about? How did it

happen?

FP: Well, I met Guy Davis at a festival in Italy, and we discovered that we were really
brothers from other mothers. So between us was born almost immediately, a deep

friendship based not only on mutual respect, but also about the passion that we both
have for the acoustic folk blues. So at a certain point, I came out with the idea to

produce an album together and so “Juba Dance” was born. We recorded it in a couple